This makes zero sense. The government should have never allowed this to happen.

So glad they covered this story. I am really moved that this can be happening here. I pray they win this court case. All should have access to water.

God bless our Navajo brothers and sisters.

This makes me cry...I'm so glad this family is able to have clean water!! God Bless you!!

There are organizations here in America that ask for money to build water wells overseas, but I have never heard them say anything at all about the fact the indigineous people whose lands they live on have no fresh drinking water.

South Dakota Tribes too, no running water on some of those reservations!!!!! It makes me ache we don't have ALL OUR people taken care of... I don't give two rats ass about no tready, the Natives deserve more help with basic municipalities at minimal. No American should be living in a house that you can't pay for water to be turned on...unless you choose not to. Pine Ridge Indian reservation is in desperate need!!!! PLEASE LET'S HELP MORE!!!!!!!!

So glad that people are helping the Navajo residents in need of precious and sacred water. Back in the 1990's I used to visit my adopted family on the Utah portion of the Rez. And I can remember my sisters and brothers having to drive from Aneth to Bluff, Utah to get water from a well at a Mission. They would have put as many 50 gallon plastic barrels in a pickup truck and fill those. It usually lasted about a week before they had to get more. And because there was no water they had an outhouse, and it was miserable to walk to in winter, let me tell you. But by the early 2000's the Navajo nation brought in a water line and built them a bathroom and installed plumbing as well as a septic pond. But they messed up the sewage pond and didn't place it low enough so they couldn't shower as the water would back up into the tub. Heaven forbid if you used the toilet. When you flushed it too would back up into the tub. So the outhouse remained in use. Washing ourselves was interesting as my sisters and I would heat a big pot on the stove and used that heated water to wash ourselves and our hair. This was all done in the kitchen with a curtain over the doorway. It was as I stated, an interesting way of life. But I loved going there when I can afford the travel expenses.

From Wind River reservation- our prayers are with the Diné ♥️

Never ever will I understand how this issue has not been rectified!A'ho

It angers me we in 2023 no running water.

And some people by my neighborhood would not believe me that there is still some places so poor and without water in the United States.

Because WE are forgotten.. But yet THEY help people all over the world

The native Americans get gypped in every way possible !!

Navajo Tribe deserves their water rights💧

A lot of mismanagement of funds have been going on for years and I'm sure this is just one more of many resources that have been neglected because of the poor management choices...glad someone is bringing and keeping these horrible inhumane issues to light..and then actually putting feet to the ground...so many problems just get talked about but never get resolved.

We were already here by the time THEY showed up. & We’re gonna be here for another 10,000 years.

So will the water crisis be eased if Denver stops sucking water over the Continental Divide from the Upper Colorado Basin?

Thank u so much for educating people about us Navajo. This makes me home sick. We moved to Clermont Florida a few years ago. Such a big change! But while living here people will automatically start talking to us in Spanish everywhere we go. We respond with sorry I am Navajo and don’t understand Spanish. 99% of them will ask us what is Navajo? It gets very frustrating, sad and annoying that they have no idea we exist!!!!!!!!!!!!! They have no idea how we live back home. Appreciate what u have America cause it’s a luxury for us.

Long ago those who have pass. Have been saying water is precious. But ppl don’t listen. And want to mistreat water. We’ve all been warned. They’ll will be a fight over water among the people.

💧Water Is Life💧HumaN💧

I'm doing a project on the Navajo Nation and this is sad. The Supreme Court has ruled against them and so my question is, what now?

From Las Cruces NM.....the struggle is real.

The Navajo’s along the base of the Grand Canyon too.

I deemed it imperative for the US government to share the comfort and luxury they have acquired from the land of the natives of that country.

Get them some fn water for damn sake. Honestly. All this money our government takes from every single worker. Unbelievable.

Terrible

WATER IS SACRED! IT'S ABOUT TIME, AND THANK YOU FOR CARING ENOUGH TO CALL ATTENTION FOR HELPING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ANCESTORS HOMELAND IS AMERICA!

It's about time❤

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The navajo nation has a river running right through it and they have no rights to it..all far off major cities do though.

We would have lost World War Two without the Navajo yet this is how they are treated

The US signed the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 5 Oct 1977. They have not ratified it yet. Access to safe drinking water and sanitation are internationally recognized human rights, derived from the right to an adequate standard of living under Article 11(1) of this Covenant . Yet groups such as the Navajo Nation not only don't have such access to safe water, they don't even have reliable access to any water. On 28 July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historical resolution recognizing “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights” (A/RES/64/292). Yet the Supreme Court denies this right to the Navajo Nation? Where are the values in the US? 😭

The tribe them self this should be done 25 years ago nothing change since then

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Is it illegal to rainwater there

Yup most with no running water... but i bet if the story was for oil the government would gladly make it easily accessible

What is the chief doing? Built some God damn water pipes.

When big city waste water mix with drinking,people start crying for help,we don't complain we haul our waters

Water is dying out from pollution.

We. As First Nations tribes, must start voting in own.people into Congress n the Senate, to speak on our behalfs, cause as water gets scarse,, the government will take of this river, The Colorado River, my late great uncle Chairman, Mr Ernest House Sr, have fought for our rights to this water , it tooks years of legel battles, since the early 30's, We won our rights as The Ute Nation, plus our sister tribe, So.Ute, as the original people of the State of Colorado , So please native tribes. Let's start putting our native people in high offices, to be a Voice for all Native tribes and it's People, Cause We Are Still Hee, , , JonPaul DeLucci ,Ute tribe

"Americans" I delivery marijuana to in northern California do not need 82 gallons of water per day, period. Especially when the water protectors of this land have no water

So F'n sad!!! This should not be in 2023. Get water to the NN!!!! Let it FLOW.... for everyone!!!

U can't collect rainwater there

U.S. Government needs to care for their own FIRST, not foreign nations that bad mouth us!

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How has this ever been any different? This land is naturally arid and water is scarce. This is their land, their “nation,” they choose to live there. And it appears that, by community action, they are achieving it. No good can come from intrusion by the Federal government. There is always a price for “help.”

Save the underground water tables on the whole indian reservation for the future generations. We never ever want to run out of drinking water.

Amen Yashua bless them and help keep keep them in fresh clean water there is a deep underground spring in the middle of Navajo nation it lies under the great river it is just sleeping because man has destroyed it by dams to feed Los Vages one day they will get smart and destroy man interference of our great Fathers will

???? Everyone here hauls there own water just like this too...no big deal

All that casino money and can’t even support there own people. Yet they can do tribal meeting in Vegas and Hawaii.

They're self-governed and riddled with corruption. Get those kids out of there to give them a chance.

I’m Hopi and I hope they can find ways to better their communities, but this is an issue of their own creating. The Navajo are not ancient people - they are nomads who are relatively new the Southwest. They wanted to encroach on these lands while having no infrastructure or recourse to survive on their own with the environment.

Jesus is Living Water "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (Jn 4:13-14)

They own all the casinos...you would think they would invest in infrastructure. It's the tribe responsibility bc they are sovereign and aren't subject reg govt regulation like everyone else so.......yeah

My Home Tuba City Az

The Nations True Citizens

Tribe is corrupt